Privacy Policy

Effective October 19, 2026

AHEAD is a daily self-improvement app: post a photo of how you're getting ahead, keep a streak, and get plans from AI coaches. This page explains what we collect, why, and how to delete it.

What we collect

Your account

• Your name, email address and password. Passwords are stored hashed by our database provider, and we can never see them.
• Your profile photo and bio, if you add them.

What you post and do in the community

• Photos you post, with their caption, category, streak count and the time you posted.
• Likes, comments and who you've added as a friend.
• Communities you create or join: their name, description and icon, who's in them, and invites you send or receive.
• Posts and communities you report and members you block, so we can review reports and hide what you've blocked.

Location (only if you allow it)

• If you allow location, your phone's coordinates are rounded to about 1 km and sent to BigDataCloud, a geocoding service, to look up your city. We never store your coordinates.
• Your city appears on a post only when you choose to add it.
• Your most recent city and country are also saved privately to your account so we understand where AHEAD is used. They're never shown to other members.

Reminders

• In the iPhone app, reminders are scheduled on your phone. We don't need to store anything to send them.
• On the web version, we store a push subscription, your timezone and which reminders you turned on, so we can send them at the right local time.

Coaches (Money, Mind, Body and Life)

• When you're signed in, your intake answers, plans, check-ins, chat history and logs (meals with a small thumbnail of the photo, workouts, weight, water, spending, confidence and mood) are backed up to our servers with your account, so they're there on any phone you sign in on. If you use AHEAD without an account, this stays on your phone only. Apple Health data is never included.
• Before your first coach conversation, the app explains this and asks your permission. When you build a plan, chat with a coach, snap a meal or a scale, or import a bank screenshot, the relevant information is sent to our AI provider, Anthropic, to generate the response: your answers, recent messages, the coach's notes about you, the photo or screenshot, and your first name (never your email or account ID). Under its commercial terms, Anthropic doesn't use this data to train its models.
• Bank screenshots. If you import a screenshot of your banking app, it's read once to pull out the date, merchant, amount and category of each transaction, which are then saved with your coach data. The screenshot itself isn't stored by AHEAD. AHEAD never connects to your bank and never asks for your bank login. You can crop out account numbers before importing.
• Everything you share with your coaches is protected by AHEAD. We never sell it or share it with anyone for their own use. It goes only to our AI provider, to write your coach's reply.
• Coaches may search the web to answer you, for example for current market data. Searches are run by our AI provider and don't include your name or email.

Apple Health (iPhone app, only if you connect it)

• If you connect Apple Health, AHEAD reads your steps, active calories, sleep and workouts to show your progress in the Physical coach. AHEAD never writes anything to Apple Health.
• This data stays on your phone. It is never stored on AHEAD's servers, never used for advertising or marketing, and never sold or shared with data brokers.
• Your coach only sees it if you turn on Let your coach see this. When that's on, recent steps, sleep and workouts are sent to our AI provider with your coach messages (with your first name, never your email or account ID), only to write your reply.
• You can turn sharing off in the app, and stop AHEAD reading Health at any time in your iPhone's Settings → Health → Data Access & Devices → AHEAD.

Subscriptions and codes

• Your free trial end date, subscription status and any promo code you redeemed.
• Purchases in the iPhone app are handled by Apple. We never see or store your card details.

Emails from AHEAD (only if you say yes)

• When you sign up you can agree to get emails from the AHEAD team about updates to the app and the company, plus tips and challenges. We record that choice and when you made it. You can change it any time in the app (You → Emails from AHEAD) or with the unsubscribe link in every email.
• If you say yes, we use your email, first name, plan (trial or paid) and general location to decide which emails are relevant to you. We may use an email service provider to send them; they only get what's needed to send.
• Account emails (like password resets and receipts) aren't marketing and still come through if you unsubscribe.

Technical data

• Your phone's time zone and when you last opened the app, so reminders and emails arrive at a sensible time and we can tell how many people are active.
• Our hosting and database providers keep standard server logs, such as IP address, device type and request times, for security and reliability. We don't use analytics or advertising trackers.

How we use it

• To run the app: your account, posts, streaks, friends, reminders and coaches.
• To keep the community safe: reviewing reports, removing content that breaks our community rules, and enforcing blocks.
• To reply when you contact support.
• To understand, in aggregate, how many people use AHEAD and where.

We don't sell your personal information, share it for advertising, or use it to build ad profiles.

Who can see what

• Other members can see your name, profile photo, bio and the posts you share, along with their caption, category, streak and the city if you added one. Comments can be read by anyone who can see the post. Friends, and people in a community with you, can comment.
• Communities: a public community's name, description and members can be seen by any signed-in member. A private community can only be seen by its members and the people they invite. Anyone with a community's invite link or code can join it.
• No other member can see your email, your private city, your coach data, your Apple Health data or your subscription details.
• The AHEAD team can view account details and backed-up coach data when needed to run the app, answer your support requests or keep the community safe. Apple Health data never reaches our servers, so we can't see it.

Who we share it with

We use a small number of service providers to run AHEAD. They process data on our behalf and only as needed to provide their service:

We may also share information if the law requires it, to protect someone's safety, or as part of a merger or sale of AHEAD. If that ever happens, this policy keeps applying to your data.

How long we keep it

• We keep your account data until you delete your account.
• When you delete your account, communities you run pass to the member who joined first, so the group isn't lost for everyone else. A community with no other members is deleted.
• When you delete it, your profile, posts, photos, likes, comments, friends, reports, blocks, reminders and code redemption are removed right away. Copies in our database provider's backups expire within 30 days.
• Coach data backed up with your account is erased from our servers when you delete your account. Without an account it lives only on your phone and is erased with the app.

Your choices and rights

• Delete your account: in the app, go to You → Delete account. If you can't get into the app, email us from your account's address and we'll delete it within 30 days. See Support for details.
• Access or correct your data: edit your profile in the app, or email us for a copy of what we hold about you.
• Location and notifications: turn them off any time in the app or in your phone's settings.
• Marketing emails: turn them off in the app (You → Emails from AHEAD) or use the unsubscribe link in any email.

Depending on where you live (for example the EU, the UK or California), you may have more rights, such as objecting to processing or asking where your data goes. Email us and we'll respond within 30 days. We'll never treat you differently for using these rights.

Children

AHEAD is for people 13 and older. We don't knowingly collect data from children under 13. If you think a child under 13 has an account, email us and we'll delete it.

Security

Data is encrypted in transit. Access to the database is restricted by row-level security, so members can only read and change what they're allowed to. No system is perfectly secure, so please use a password you don't use anywhere else.

International users

AHEAD is run from the United States, and our providers may process data in the US and other countries.

Changes

If we change this policy, we'll update the date at the top. If the change is significant, we'll tell you in the app before it takes effect.

Contact

Questions or requests: miles@aheadsolutions.net